vulnerability
Google Chrome Vulnerability: CVE-2023-5217 Heap buffer overflow in vp8 encoding in libvpx
| Severity | CVSS | Published | Added | Modified |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9 | (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C) | Sep 28, 2023 | Sep 28, 2023 | Mar 30, 2026 |
Severity
9
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Published
Sep 28, 2023
Added
Sep 28, 2023
Modified
Mar 30, 2026
Description
Heap buffer overflow in vp8 encoding in libvpx in Google Chrome prior to 117.0.5938.132 and libvpx 1.13.1 allowed a remote attacker to potentially exploit heap corruption via a crafted HTML page. (Chromium security severity: High)
Solution
google-chrome-upgrade-latest
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